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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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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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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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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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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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