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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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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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Long only for what you have.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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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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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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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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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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