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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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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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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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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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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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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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