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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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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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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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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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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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