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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
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Travel Writer
Writer
Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Empathy
Recognize
Unless
Sound
Apathy
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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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.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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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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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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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.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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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.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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