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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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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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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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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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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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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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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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