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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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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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Do not scorn little victories.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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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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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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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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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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