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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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 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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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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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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