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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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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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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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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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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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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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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.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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