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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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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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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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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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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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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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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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