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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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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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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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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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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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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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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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