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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
Andre Gide
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Andre Gide
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Andre Gide
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
Andre Gide
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
Andre Gide
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
Andre Gide
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
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Andre Gide
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
Long only for what you have.
Andre Gide
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
Andre Gide
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
Andre Gide
