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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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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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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Long only for what you have.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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