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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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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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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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