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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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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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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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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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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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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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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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