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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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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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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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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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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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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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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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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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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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