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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
Andre Gide
Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
Andre Gide
Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
Andre Gide
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
Andre Gide
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Andre Gide
The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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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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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
Andre Gide
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
Andre Gide
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
Andre Gide
