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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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