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Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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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.”
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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