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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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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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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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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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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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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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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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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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