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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

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 straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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