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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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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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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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