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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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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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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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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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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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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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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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