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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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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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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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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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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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