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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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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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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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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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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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