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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
Andre Gide
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
Andre Gide
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
Andre Gide
The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
Andre Gide
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
Andre Gide
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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