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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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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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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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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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