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Please do not understand me too quickly.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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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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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
Andre Gide
Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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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
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
Andre Gide
There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
Andre Gide
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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