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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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