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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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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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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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