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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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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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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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