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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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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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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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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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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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