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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Andre Gide
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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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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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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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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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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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