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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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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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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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