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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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 pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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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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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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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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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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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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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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