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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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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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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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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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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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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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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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