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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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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 sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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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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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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