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Andre Gide Quotes

«It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.»
«Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.»
Author: Andre Gide | Keywords: bellied, bellies, belly, fish, surface, upward
«The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.»
«It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labour of peace.»
Author: Andre Gide | About: Peace, War | Keywords: combat, labour, restrain, stirring
«Sin is whatever obscures the soul.»
Author: Andre Gide | About: Sin | Keywords: obscures, obscuring, sin
«Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death»
Author: Andre Gide | About: Society | Keywords: methods, perfectly, subtle, To Kill a
«Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.»
Author: Andre Gide | About: Possessions | Keywords: possesses, proved, unable
«A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly»
«Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness»
«The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations»
Author: Andre Gide | About: Intelligence | Keywords: limitations, precisely, suffers

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