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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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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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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Andre Gide
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Andre Gide
Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
Andre Gide
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
Andre Gide
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
Andre Gide
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
Andre Gide
Long only for what you have.
Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
Andre Gide
Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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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.
Andre Gide
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Andre Gide
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
Andre Gide
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
Andre Gide
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
Andre Gide
