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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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