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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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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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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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