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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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More quotes by Andre Gide
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
Andre Gide
Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
Andre Gide
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Andre Gide
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
Andre Gide
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Andre Gide
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
Andre Gide
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
Andre Gide
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
Andre Gide
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Andre Gide
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
Andre Gide
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Andre Gide
