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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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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.

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Children, Parent, Would Be

Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.293, Routledge

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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

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Mirrors, Soul, Casts

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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

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Substitutes, Drunkenness

Andre Gide (1953). “Marshlands and Prometheus Misbound”

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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

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Life, May, Fresh Start

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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.

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Writing, Care, Irreplaceable

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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

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Art, Self, Expression

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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

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Book, Writing, Admirer

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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

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Sometimes, Vow, Resolution

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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

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Prayer, Self, Moments

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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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Running, Risk, Portraits

Andre Gide (2012). “Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel”, p.226, Vintage

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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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Truth, Honesty, Fighting

Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.159, Routledge

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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

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Kindness, Empathy, Joy

Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.281, Routledge

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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

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Effort, Paradise, Sin

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

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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.

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Love, Prayer, Hands

Journals 1889-1949, 1929.

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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

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Profound, Optimism, Sides

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No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

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Book, Heart, Leaving

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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

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Heart, Thinking, Long

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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

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Flames, Deeds, Action

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Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

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Party, Victory, May

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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

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Writing, Generations, Substance

Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.145, Routledge

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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

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Long, Effort, Crafts

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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

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Devil, Lasts, Conversation

"Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, 1917.

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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

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Fall, Army, Gun

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Born: November 22, 1869
Died: February 19, 1951
Occupation: Author
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