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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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