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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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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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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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 important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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