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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
Journalist
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Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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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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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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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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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.”
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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