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Quote by Andre Gide
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. - Andre Gi

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. – Andre Gide

Other quotes by Andre Gide

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities…. I listen to them and they go away delighted. – Andre Gide

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Listening
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! – Andre Gide

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Change
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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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Art
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Other Quotes from
Emotions
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Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup. – Dogen

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Emotions

Too much emotion is like none at all. – Du Mu, translated

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Emotions

You cant expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you cant expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones. – Greg Anderson

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Emotions

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing. – Sonya Hartnett

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Emotions

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The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something. – Eric Sevareid

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Partir, cest mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.) – Proverb

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Last Words

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love. – Paul Theroux

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All the modern verse plays, theyre terrible theyre mostly about the poetry. Its more important that the play is first. – Denis Johnson

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