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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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 individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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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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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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