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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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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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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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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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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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