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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
The wise man is astonished by anything.
Andre Gide
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
Andre Gide
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Andre Gide
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Andre Gide
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Andre Gide
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Andre Gide
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
Andre Gide
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Andre Gide
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
Andre Gide
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Andre Gide
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Andre Gide
