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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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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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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 Those from which the sap has withdrawn.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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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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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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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
Andre Gide
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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