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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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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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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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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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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Andre Gide
If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
