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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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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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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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