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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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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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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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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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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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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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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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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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