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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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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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