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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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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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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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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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