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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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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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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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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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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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