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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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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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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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