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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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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.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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 novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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