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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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.
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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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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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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 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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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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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.
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