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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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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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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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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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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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