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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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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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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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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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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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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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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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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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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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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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