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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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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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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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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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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
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
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
Andre Gide
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
