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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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Sadness is a state of sin.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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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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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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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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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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