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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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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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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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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 wise man is astonished by anything.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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