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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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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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Long only for what you have.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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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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