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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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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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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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