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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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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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.
Andre Gide
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
Andre Gide
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
Andre Gide
The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
Andre Gide
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
Andre Gide
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Andre Gide
When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
Andre Gide
Sadness is a state of sin.
Andre Gide
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Andre Gide
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Andre Gide
Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
Andre Gide
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andre Gide
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Andre Gide
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Andre Gide
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
Andre Gide
Please do not understand me too quickly.
Andre Gide
