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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
Journalist
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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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.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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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.”
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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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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