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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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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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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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 Those from which the sap has withdrawn.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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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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