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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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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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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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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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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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