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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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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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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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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 true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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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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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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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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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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