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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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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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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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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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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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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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