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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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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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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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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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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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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 nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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