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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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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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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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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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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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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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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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