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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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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Andre Gide
The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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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.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
Andre Gide
The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
Andre Gide
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Andre Gide
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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