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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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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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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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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 work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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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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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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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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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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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 scorn little victories.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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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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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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