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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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 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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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
Andre Gide
Please do not understand me too quickly.
Andre Gide
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Andre Gide
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
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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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Andre Gide
If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
Andre Gide
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
Andre Gide
