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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 belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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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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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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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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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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The color of truth is gray.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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 young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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