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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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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.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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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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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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