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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
Andre Gide
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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
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.
Andre Gide
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
Andre Gide
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide
An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
Andre Gide
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
Andre Gide
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
Andre Gide
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
Andre Gide
