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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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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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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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