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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Andre Gide
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Andre Gide
Solitude is bearable only with God.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
Andre Gide
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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