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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Andre Gide

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDE

Optimism Profound Torture
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDE

Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
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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Life Live Obligation Truth
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Artist Collaboration God
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE

Except Objective Path Straight Travel
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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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
Dare to be yourself.
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Be Yourself Dare One Liner
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDE

Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDE

Age Habit Live Resolution
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Man Reality Thinking

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