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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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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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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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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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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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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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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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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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