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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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 sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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 Those from which the sap has withdrawn.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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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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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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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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