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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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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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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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Long only for what you have.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Andre Gide
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Andre Gide
The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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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.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
Andre Gide
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Andre Gide
What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
Andre Gide
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Andre Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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