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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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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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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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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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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 most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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