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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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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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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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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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