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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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