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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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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 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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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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