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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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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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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 fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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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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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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.
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