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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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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 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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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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