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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change 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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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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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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Do not scorn little victories.
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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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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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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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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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