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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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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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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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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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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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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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