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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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
Andre Gide
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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Sadness is a state of sin.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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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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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Only fools don't contradict themselves
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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