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Andre Gide Inspirational Quotes (245)

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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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