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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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