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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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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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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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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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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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