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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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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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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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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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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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