AndrÃ© Gide's Quote - In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what o

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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what o

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself. – AndrÃ© Gide

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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. – AndrÃ© Gide

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – AndrÃ© Gide

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. – AndrÃ© Gide

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All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. – Dorothy Bryant

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We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. – George Wald, “The Origin of Optical Activity,” Annals of the New York Academy of

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau, 1854

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