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Solitude is bearable only with God.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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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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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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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.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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