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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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