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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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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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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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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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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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