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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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 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.
Andre Gide
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Andre Gide
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
Andre Gide
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
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
Andre Gide
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
Andre Gide
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
Andre Gide
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
Andre Gide
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
Andre Gide
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
Andre Gide
To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Andre Gide
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
Andre Gide
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Andre Gide
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
Andre Gide
Sadness is a state of sin.
Andre Gide
