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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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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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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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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 another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
