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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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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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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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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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