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Solitude is bearable only with God.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide
The wise man is astonished by anything.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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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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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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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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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.
Andre Gide
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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