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"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason" Andre Gide
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"The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions." Andre Gide
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"A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective." Andre Gide
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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." Andre Gide
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"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." Andre Gide
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"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason." Andre Gide
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"Prejudices are the props of civilization" Andre Gide
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"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change." Andre Gide
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"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity." Andre Gide
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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" Andre Gide
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"Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes" Andre Gide
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"Solitude is bearable only with God" Andre Gide
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"Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding." Andre Gide
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"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes" Andre Gide
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"Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." Andre Gide
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