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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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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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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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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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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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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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