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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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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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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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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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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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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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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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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