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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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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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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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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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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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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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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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