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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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The color of truth is gray.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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