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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
Andre Gide
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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