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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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