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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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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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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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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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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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