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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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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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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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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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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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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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