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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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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 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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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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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 belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Andre Gide
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Andre Gide
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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