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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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