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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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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.
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It is impermissible under any circumstances for morals to sink as low as communism has done. No one can begin to imagine the tragedy of humanity, of morality, of religion and of freedoms in the land of communism, where man has been debased beyond belief.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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One does not discover new continents without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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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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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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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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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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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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In the realm of the emotions, the real is indistinguishable from the imaginary.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the sufferings and joys of others.
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What cleanliness everywhere! You dare not throw your cigarette into the lake. No graffiti in the urinals. Switzerland is proud of this; but I believe this is just what she lacks: manure.
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André Gide
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Born:
November 22, 1869
Died:
February 19, 1951
(aged 81)
Bio:
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.
Known for:
The Counterfeiters (1925)
The Immoralist (1902)
Strait Is the Gate (1909)
The Fruits of the Earth (1897)
La Symphonie Pastorale (1919)
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