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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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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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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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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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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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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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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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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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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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