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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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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 sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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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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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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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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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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