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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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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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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.
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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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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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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
Andre Gide
Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
Andre Gide
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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