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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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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.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Long only for what you have.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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