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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Andre Gide
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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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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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
Andre Gide
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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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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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
Andre Gide
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
Andre Gide
A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
Andre Gide
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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