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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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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Andre Gide
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
We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
Andre Gide
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
Andre Gide
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Andre Gide
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
Andre Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Andre Gide
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
Andre Gide
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
Andre Gide
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
Andre Gide
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
Long only for what you have.
Andre Gide
The world will be saved by one or two people.
Andre Gide
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
