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Andre Gide Biography

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. The author of "more than fifty books", at the time of his death the New York Times obituary described him 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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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Needs, Nothing, Prudence, Prudent, Say

Whither should we aim if not towards God?

Aim, God, Ifs, Should, Whither

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Accept, Change, Evil, Struggle

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

Accepted, Doe, Important, Thing, Though, Trying

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Age, Cross, Frenchman, Honor, Legion, Literature

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

Found, Think, Thinking, Truth

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Civilization, Justice, Prejudice, Prejudices, Props

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

Definitive, Elements, Nature, Return, True

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Change, Fall, Ideas, Leaves, Motivational, Tree

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

Clear, Dangerous, Dare, Doe, Ideas

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

Consequently, Desire, Everything, Nothing, Should, Want

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

Able, Believe, Circumstances, Follow, See

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

Beings, Care, Exists, Irreplaceable, Patiently, Writing

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

Distaste, Effect, Mere, Resolution, Sometimes, Vow

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.

Company, Merely, Motivational, Reading, Says, Travel

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good. ”

Created, Doe, Long, Novelists, See

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

Black, Intelligent, Men, Stupid

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Desire, Despair, Joy

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

Emotional, Emotions, Experience, Justice, Limitation, Sorry

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

Approving, Beginning, Understanding

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