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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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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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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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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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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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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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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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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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