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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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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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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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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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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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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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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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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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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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