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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
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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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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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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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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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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.
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