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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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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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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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