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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
Andre Gide
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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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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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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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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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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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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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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