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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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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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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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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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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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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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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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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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