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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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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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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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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.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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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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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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