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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

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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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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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 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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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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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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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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