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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

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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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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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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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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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 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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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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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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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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