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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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 wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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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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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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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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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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