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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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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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