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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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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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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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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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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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