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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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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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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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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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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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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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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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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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