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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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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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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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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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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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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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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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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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