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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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 of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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