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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
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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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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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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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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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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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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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