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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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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 capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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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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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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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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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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