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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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