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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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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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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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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 I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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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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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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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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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
Andre Gide
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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