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The world will be saved by one or two people.

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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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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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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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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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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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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