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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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 that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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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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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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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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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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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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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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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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