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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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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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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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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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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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