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Andre Gide Quotes

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: french
Birth: November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951

Topics

Hell Punishment Over Begin Left

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.

Loved Genius Meant To Be Out Through

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

Life Work Friend Live Children Me

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

Now Cocky Talk Never Right Been

My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

Heart Simple Touch Film Approach

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

Life Friend Guitar Uncle Canada Him

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

Simple You Real See Pretty Screen

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Poetry Loss Airport Will Heavy Most

I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.

Singing Acting Know Become Singer

Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Competition Problems Financial Tax

I'm not looking to stick my nose into an area where I'm not needed.

Looking Nose Stick Where Needed

I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!

Mother Me Hair Care Loved Growing

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

Too Much Sometimes Others Paycheck

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