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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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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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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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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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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 is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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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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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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