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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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