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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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 abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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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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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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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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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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