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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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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 public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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