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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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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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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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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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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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