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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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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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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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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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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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