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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Long only for what you have.
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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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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