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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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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
Andre Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
Andre Gide
What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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.
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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
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
Andre Gide
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Andre Gide
