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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2827/">Quotes by <em>Gide, Andre</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Andre Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 February 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in-between the two World Wars. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

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

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

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"A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective."

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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

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"Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding."

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"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."

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