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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.
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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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 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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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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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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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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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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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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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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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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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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