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Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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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.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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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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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Andre Gide
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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