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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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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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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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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 individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
Andre Gide
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
