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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
Andre Gide
Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
Andre Gide
How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
Andre Gide
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
Andre Gide
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
Andre Gide
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
Andre Gide
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
Andre Gide
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
Andre Gide
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
Andre Gide
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
Andre Gide
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
Andre Gide
