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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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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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