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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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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 often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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