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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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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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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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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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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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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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