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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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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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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 Those from which the sap has withdrawn.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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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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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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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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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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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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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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