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When intelligent people pride ...

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

Andre Gide 316 quotes

To know how to free oneself is...

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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The important thing is being c...

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

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Seize from every moment its un...

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

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It is essential to persuade th...

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

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But can one still make resolut...

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

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It is the special quality of l...

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing....

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One should want only one thing...

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

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Our judgements about things va...

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

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We live counterfeit lives in o...

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

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Too chaste a youth leads to a ...

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

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Drunkenness is never anything ...

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

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The great artist is one whom c...

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

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It would be wisest not to worr...

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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The most subtle art, the stron...

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

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Through fear of resembling one...

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

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An experience teaches only the...

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

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To win ones joy through strugg...

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

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Nothing is more fatal to happi...

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

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Great minds tend toward banali...

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

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