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Andre Gide
About Author: French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951)
Quotes:Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Dare to be yourself.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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