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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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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
Andre Gide
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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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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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
Do not scorn little victories.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
Andre Gide
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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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Andre Gide
I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
Andre Gide
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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