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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
Long only for what you have.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Andre Gide
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Andre Gide
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
Andre Gide
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
Andre Gide
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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