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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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.
Andre Gide
Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
Andre Gide
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
Andre Gide
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
Andre Gide
Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
Andre Gide
How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
Andre Gide
The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Andre Gide
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Andre Gide
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Andre Gide
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
Andre Gide
Only fools don't contradict themselves
Andre Gide
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
Andre Gide
Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
Andre Gide
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
Andre Gide
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
Andre Gide
