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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

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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
Andre Gide
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Long only for what you have.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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