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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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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 great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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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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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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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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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Long only for what you have.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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