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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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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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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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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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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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