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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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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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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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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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Long only for what you have.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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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 would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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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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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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