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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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.
Andre Gide
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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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Andre Gide
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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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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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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