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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.

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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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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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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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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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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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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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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 Those from which the sap has withdrawn.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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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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