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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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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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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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