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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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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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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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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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