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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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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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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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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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