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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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 pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
Andre Gide
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Andre Gide
Solitude is bearable only with 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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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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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
Andre Gide
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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