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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt 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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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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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's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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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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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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