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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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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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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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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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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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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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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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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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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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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