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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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