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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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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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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
Andre Gide
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
Andre Gide
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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