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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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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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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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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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