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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.
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 individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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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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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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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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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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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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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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