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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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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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