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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
Andre Gide
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
Andre Gide
If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
Andre Gide
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Andre Gide
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Andre Gide
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Andre Gide
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
Andre Gide
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
Andre Gide
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Andre Gide
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Andre Gide
Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
Andre Gide