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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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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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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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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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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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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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