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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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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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