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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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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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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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys 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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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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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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