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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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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.
Andre Gide
The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
Andre Gide
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
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
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Andre Gide
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Andre Gide
Do not scorn little victories.
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