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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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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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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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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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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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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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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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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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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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