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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
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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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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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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