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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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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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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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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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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.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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