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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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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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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 does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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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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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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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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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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