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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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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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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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