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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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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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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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