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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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Film Producer
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France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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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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