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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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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.
Andre Gide
The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
Andre Gide
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
Andre Gide
To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Andre Gide
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Andre Gide
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide
An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Sadness is a state of sin.
Andre Gide
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
Andre Gide
Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
Andre Gide
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.”
Andre Gide
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
Andre Gide
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
Andre Gide
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
Andre Gide
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide
