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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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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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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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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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