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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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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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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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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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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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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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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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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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