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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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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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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 are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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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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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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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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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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