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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
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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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.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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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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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
Andre Gide
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
Andre Gide
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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