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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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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 public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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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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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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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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