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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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 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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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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