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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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 intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
Andre Gide
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Andre Gide
There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
Andre Gide
The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
Andre Gide
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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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 anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
Andre Gide
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Andre Gide
