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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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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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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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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.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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