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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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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.
Andre Gide
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
Andre Gide
Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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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
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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