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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Andre Gide
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Andre Gide
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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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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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
The color of truth is gray.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
Andre Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
Andre Gide
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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