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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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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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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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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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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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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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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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