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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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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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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Andre Gide
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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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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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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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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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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Be faithful to that which exists within 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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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