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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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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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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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