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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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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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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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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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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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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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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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