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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

~Andre Gide

Topics: Happiness Like Memory Nothing Prevents

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

~Andre Gide

Topics: Anywhere Except Leads Never Objective Path Straight

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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

~Andre Gide

Topics: Complete Give Giving Only Possesses Possession Proved Unable You

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

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Topics: Belly Die Falling Fish Rise Surface Upward Way

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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

~Andre Gide

Topics: Art Artist Better Between Collaboration Does God Less

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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

~Andre Gide

Topics: All Things Better Caress Considered Enemies Even Friends Life Me More Much Owe Person Real Real Person Springs Sting Strikes Than Things

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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.

~Andre Gide

Topics: Beauty Caress Hands Join Joined Love Made Make Old Pity Prayer Seems Soil Soon Them Too Were Whatever Young

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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

~Andre Gide

Topics: Bent Follow Good Leads Long Own Upward

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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

~Andre Gide

Topics: Fear Few Monsters Them Very Warrant Who

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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

~Andre Gide

Topics: Because Did Important Important Things Me Most Necessary Obvious Often Say The Most Important Things Think Those Too Were Which

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: November 22nd, 1869

Died: February 19th, 1951

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