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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 abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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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 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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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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