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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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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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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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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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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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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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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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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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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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