French - Novelist | November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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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 most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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