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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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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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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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