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Long only for what you have.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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