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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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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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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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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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