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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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
Andre Gide
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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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 color of truth is gray.
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