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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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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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