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Andre Gide Quotes
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Old hands soil, it seems, what they caress; but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands are made for caresses and the sheathing of love; it is a pity to make them join too soon.
I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Violence Quote
Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Funny Quote
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Funny Quote
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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