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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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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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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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