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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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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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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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