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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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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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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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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.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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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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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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