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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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 difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
Andre Gide
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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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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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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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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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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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
Andre Gide
The world will be saved by one or two people.
Andre Gide
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre Gide
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
Andre Gide
