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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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