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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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