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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Long only for what you have.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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 novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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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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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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