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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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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 bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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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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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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