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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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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.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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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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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre Gide
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
Andre Gide
The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Andre Gide
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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