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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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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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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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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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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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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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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The color of truth is gray.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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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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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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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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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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