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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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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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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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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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