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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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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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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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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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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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