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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Andre Gide
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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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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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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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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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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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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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Andre Gide
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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