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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

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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. – Andre Gide

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. – Andre Gide

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Men
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Joseph Conrad

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Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true. – Author Unknown

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Emotions

Now I am not one of the most constant creatures alive myself, and am apt to run through the spectrum which has the blues at the bottom about once a week. – Byron Caldwell Smith (1849-1877), letter to Kate Stephens

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By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. – Joseph Collins

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