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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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