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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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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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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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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 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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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