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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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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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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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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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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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