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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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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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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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