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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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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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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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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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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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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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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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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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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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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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