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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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 thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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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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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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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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