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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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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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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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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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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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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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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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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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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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