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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

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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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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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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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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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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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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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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