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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Andre Gide
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Andre Gide
Long only for what you have.
Andre Gide
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
Andre Gide
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
Andre Gide
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
Andre Gide
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Andre Gide
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
Andre Gide
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
Andre Gide
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Andre Gide
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
Andre Gide
