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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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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.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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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.
Andre Gide
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Andre Gide
An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
Andre Gide
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Andre Gide
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Andre Gide
