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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
Andre Gide
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Andre Gide
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Andre Gide
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Long only for what you have.
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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.
Andre Gide
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
Andre Gide
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
Andre Gide
An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
Andre Gide
