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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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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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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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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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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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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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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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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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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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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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