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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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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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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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