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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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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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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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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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