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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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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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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 abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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