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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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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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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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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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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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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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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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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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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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