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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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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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