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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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Drunkenness
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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