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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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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.
Andre Gide
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
Andre Gide
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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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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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.
Andre Gide
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
Andre Gide
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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
