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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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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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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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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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