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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 pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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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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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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