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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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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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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.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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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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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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