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Andre Gide Facts
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André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and centers on his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. (1869-1951) |
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Quotes by Andre Gide
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
Andre Gide /The Immoralist/
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
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Dare to be yourself
Andre Gide
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
Andre Gide
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Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
Andre Gide
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
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Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again
Andre Gide
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One does not discover new continents without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
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The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are the things they try to repress. The imitate and make out they love life!
Andre Gide
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
Andre Gide
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