French - Novelist | November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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