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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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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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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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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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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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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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