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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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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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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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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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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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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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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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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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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