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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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
Andre Gide
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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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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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 true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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