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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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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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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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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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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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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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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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