Quote by Andre Gide
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable t

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. – Andre Gide

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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! – Andre Gide

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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. – Andre Gide

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All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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You taught me all about love, all about faith, and then God turned your lessons inside out, let me see the underside of every good thing you gave me. – Margaret Blair Young, Heresies of Nature, 2002

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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. – Abe Lemons

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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. – Ouida

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Life is like sea-water; it never gets quite sweet until it is drawn up into heaven. – J.P. Richter

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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. – Thomas Paine

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The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. – Harold R. McAlindon

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