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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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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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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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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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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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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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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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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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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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Andre Gide
Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
Andre Gide
Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
Andre Gide
The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
Andre Gide
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
