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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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 most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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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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