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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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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 very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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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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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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