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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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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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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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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 true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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