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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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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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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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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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