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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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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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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Long only for what you have.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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