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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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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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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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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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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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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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