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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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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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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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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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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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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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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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