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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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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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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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