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• The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

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  Nature, Elements, Return

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.38, Routledge

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• Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

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  Writing, Literature, Produce

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• There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

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  Art, Cutting, Works Of Art

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• Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

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  Jealousy, Hate, Home

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• The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

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  Men, Creation Of Man, Would Be

  "The Immoralist".

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• The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

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  Nature, Literature, Trembling

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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.

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  Arms, Able, Settling

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• It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

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  Honor, Age, Literature

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• I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

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  Grace, Able, Knows

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• There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

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  Hope, Opportunity, Doors

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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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  Thinking, Dislike Me, Wonderful

  Andre Gide (2012). “Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel”, p.209, Vintage

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• Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

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  Men, Spirituality, Achieve

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.205, Vintage

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• At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

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  Birthday, Real, Wrinkles

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.286, Routledge

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Secret

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• An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

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  Important, Trying, Doe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

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• The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

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  Men, Race, Individuality

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• What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

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  Mind, Elements, Elude

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• Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

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  Amplify, Argument, Quarrels

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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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  Goes On, Literature, Use

  "Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, Detached Pages, 1913.

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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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  Beautiful, Regret, Fall

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• The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

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  People, Interesting, Individual

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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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  God, Lying, Convince

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• God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

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  Literature, Depends

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• Whither should we aim if not towards God?

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  Should, Aim, Ifs

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• The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.

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  Mean, Laughing, Suffering

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