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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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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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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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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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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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