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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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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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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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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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 wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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