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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

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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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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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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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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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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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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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