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Sadness is a state of sin.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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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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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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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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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Long only for what you have.
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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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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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