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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
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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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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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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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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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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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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