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Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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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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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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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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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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