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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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