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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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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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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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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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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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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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