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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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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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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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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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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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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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