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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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