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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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 completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Long only for what you have.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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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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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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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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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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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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