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Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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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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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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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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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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