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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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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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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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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.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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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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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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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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