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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

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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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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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.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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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.
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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.
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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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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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