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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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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.
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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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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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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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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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