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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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 with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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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 important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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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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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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