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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
Andre Gide
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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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.
Andre Gide
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
Andre Gide
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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