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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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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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