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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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The color of truth is gray.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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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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