“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
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Andre Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 novembre 1869 – 19 février 1951) était un écrivain et auteur français dont les œuvres couvraient une grande variété de styles et de sujets. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1947. La carrière de Gide s'étendait de ses débuts dans le mouvement symboliste à la critique de l'impérialisme entre les deux guerres mondiales. Auteur de plus de 50 livres, il a été décrit dans sa nécrologie du *New York Times* comme « le plus grand homme de lettres contemporain de France » et « jugé le plus grand écrivain français de ce siècle par les connaisseurs littéraires ». ---------- André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. The author of more than 50 books, he was described in his *New York Times* obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."
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“The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.”
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“The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.”
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“The color of truth is gray.”
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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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“What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful t...”
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“To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.”
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“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”
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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
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“Not everyone can be an orphan.”
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“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal o...”
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“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”
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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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“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
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“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”
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“In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.”
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