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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
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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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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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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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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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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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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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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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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