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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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 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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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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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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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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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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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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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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's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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