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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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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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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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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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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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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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