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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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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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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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