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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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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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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.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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