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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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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 miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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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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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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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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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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