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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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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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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 most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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 individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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