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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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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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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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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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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 would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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