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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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
Andre Gide
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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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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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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