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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. РAndr̩ Gide

Other quotes by André Gide

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. РAndr̩ Gide

Category:
Hypocrisy
Author
André Gide
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself. РAndr̩ Gide

Category:
Self-Discovery
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André Gide
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Writing
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Writing

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. – E.L. Doctorow

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Writing

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. – Gail Hamilton

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Writing

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. – Charles Peguy

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Writing

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The only weights I lift are my dogs. – Olivia Newton-John

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fitness

I think that the Information Age is great, but theres a downside to it obviously as well, and its that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And its sad that so many people will believe it. – Josh Hopkins

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sad
[History is] petrified imagination. – Arthur Baer

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History

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. – Oliver Evans

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communication