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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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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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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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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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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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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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