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Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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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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Long only for what you have.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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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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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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