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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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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.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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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.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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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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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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