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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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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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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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