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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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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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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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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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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
Andre Gide
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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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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The color of truth is gray.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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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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Do not scorn little victories.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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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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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
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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