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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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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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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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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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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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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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