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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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