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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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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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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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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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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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