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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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Long only for what you have.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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