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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
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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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.
Andre Gide
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
Andre Gide
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
Andre Gide
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
Andre Gide
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
Andre Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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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.
Andre Gide
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
Andre Gide
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide
If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
Andre Gide
