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| Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
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| It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| 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 | 1869-1951, French Author |
| Not everyone can be an orphan. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| 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 | 1869-1951, French Author |
| There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
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| Sin is whatever obscures the soul. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| 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. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
