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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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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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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
Andre Gide
Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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