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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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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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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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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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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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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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The world will be saved by one or two people.
Andre Gide
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
