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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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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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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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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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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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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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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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