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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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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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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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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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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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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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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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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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