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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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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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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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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Do not scorn little victories.
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