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• I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

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  Children, Young, Advise

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• The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

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  Christian, Art, Poverty

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.284, Routledge

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• An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

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  Mind, Prejudice, World

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• Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

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  Men, Made, Dependent

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• To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

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  Wise, Past, Degrees

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• So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

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• Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

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  Inspirational, People, Opinion

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.196, Vintage

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• Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

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  Empathy, Sound, Apathy

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• The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

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  Cutting, Vanity, Anxiety

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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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  Long, Novelists, Doe

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• It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

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  Life, Travel, Adventure

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• The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

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  Art, Serenity, Rising

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

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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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  Dwelling Place, Perfect, Attention

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, "Characters," p. 299, 1964.

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• The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

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  Sorry, Emotional, Justice

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• Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

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  Happiness, Remembrance, Joy

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.43, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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  Jobs, People

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.450, Vintage

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• Not everyone can be an orphan.

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  Literature, Orphan

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• 'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

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  Sarcastic, Poetry, Poetic

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• To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Struggle

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• One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

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  Desire, Want, Should

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• The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

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  Gold, Pieces, Empty

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.27, Routledge

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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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  Joy, Despair, Desire

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.65, Vintage

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• The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Suffering

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• You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

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  People, Answers, Insult

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• Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

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  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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