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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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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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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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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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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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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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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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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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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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