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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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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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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 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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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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