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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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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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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.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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