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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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