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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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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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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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Do not scorn little victories.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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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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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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