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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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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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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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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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