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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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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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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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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 a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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