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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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