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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Andre Gide
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
Andre Gide
Please do not understand me too quickly.
Andre Gide
I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
Andre Gide
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
Andre Gide
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Andre Gide
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
Andre Gide
Not everyone can be an orphan.
Andre Gide
When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
Andre Gide
The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
Andre Gide
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
Andre Gide
Long only for what you have.
Andre Gide
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
Andre Gide
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Andre Gide
