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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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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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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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