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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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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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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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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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