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A work of art is an exaggeration.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
Journalist
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Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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