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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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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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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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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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