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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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The color of truth is gray.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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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 less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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