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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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 most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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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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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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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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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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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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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 owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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