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Andre Gide

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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
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GEORGE MACDONALD If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
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JANE BENNETT Broken down into manageable chunks, the biggest projects become easy to conquer.
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It takes almost as much effort to NOT do something, as it does to do it.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Often our biggest distractions are not external, but come from within. Get out of your own way!
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Your ability to sustain focus depends on how enjoyable and productive it is.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Take power breaks every hour. Schedule tougher tasks for the time when you are most productive.
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.
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LJUPKA CVETANOVA My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
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You must dare to fly!
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ANDRE GIDE Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through...
ANDRE GIDE Before I explain my book to others, I expect them to explain it to me. To claim to explain it first ...
ANDRE GIDE All these books have lived together ... inside my mind. They follow one another only on paper and be...
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ANDRE GIDE Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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ANDRE GIDE Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you...
ANDRE GIDE February 13, 1951. No! I cannot claim that with the end of this notebook, of the notebook, al...
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ANDRE GIDE Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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ANDRE GIDE It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it...
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ANDRE GIDE Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ...
ANDRE GIDE A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
ANDRE GIDE No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on co...
ANDRE GIDE Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDE It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
ANDRE GIDE Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDE Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...
ANDRE GIDE Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone
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ANDRE GIDE The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity
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ANDRE GIDE Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDE Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct the...
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct the...
ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRE GIDE Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
ANDRE GIDE There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession
ANDRE GIDE It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do ...
ANDRE GIDE Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever ...
ANDRE GIDE Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning a...
ANDRE GIDE The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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ANDRE GIDE Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
ANDRE GIDE Not everyone can be an orphan.
ANDRE GIDE I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemi...
ANDRE GIDE Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own developmen...
ANDRE GIDE The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone c...
ANDRE GIDE Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own developm...
ANDRE GIDE If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
ANDRE GIDE Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDE The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole cours...
ANDRE GIDE Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDE The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course...
ANDRE GIDE Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you your...
ANDRE GIDE It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE Dare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRE GIDE Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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ANDRE GIDE Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable
ANDRE GIDE Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if tod...
ANDRE GIDE It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written
ANDRE GIDE Prejudices are the props of civilization
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ANDRE GIDE To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpr...
ANDRE GIDE Understanding is the beginning of approving
ANDRE GIDE He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands upon others
ANDRE GIDE Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less...
ANDRE GIDE One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.
ANDRE GIDE Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has eve...
ANDRE GIDE The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes
ANDRE GIDE If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so
ANDRE GIDE Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases
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ANDRE GIDE The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best...
ANDRE GIDE The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy...
ANDRE GIDE God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDE Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
ANDRE GIDE Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
ANDRE GIDE I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves
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ANDRE GIDE There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDE The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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ANDRE GIDE In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in ...
ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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ANDRE GIDE Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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ANDRE GIDE The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations
ANDRE GIDE The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
ANDRE GIDE The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes
ANDRE GIDE The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself
ANDRE GIDE How do you know when the fruit is ripe? - Simple: When it leaves the branch
ANDRE GIDE Hugo - alas!
ANDRE GIDE Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age
ANDRE GIDE Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness
ANDRE GIDE A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
ANDRE GIDE Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason
ANDRE GIDE The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
ANDRE GIDE Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys
ANDRE GIDE There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome
ANDRE GIDE One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
ANDRE GIDE What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer
ANDRE GIDE The color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDE It is now, and in this world, that we must live
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ANDRE GIDE There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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ANDRé GIDE Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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ANDRé GIDE This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene...
ANDRé GIDE We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRé GIDE Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRé GIDE Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
ANDRé GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.
ANDRé GIDE Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-impo...
ANDRé GIDE Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating ...
ANDRé GIDE The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — b...
ANDRé GIDE Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRé GIDE A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
ANDRé GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRé GIDE Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRé GIDE You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
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ANDRé GIDE He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRé GIDE Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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ANDRé GIDE Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRé GIDE Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.
ANDRé GIDE The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRé GIDE Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRé GIDE The color of truth is grey.
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ANDRé GIDE Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRé GIDE Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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ANDRé GIDE Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.
ANDRé GIDE God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRé GIDE Dare to be yourself
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ANDRé GIDE Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything m...
ANDRé GIDE Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they li...
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ANDRE MAUROIS There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
ANDRE MAUROIS Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
ANDRE MAUROIS Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
ANDRE MAUROIS Business is a combination of war and sport.
ANDRE MAUROIS The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROIS We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
ANDRE MAUROIS If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you crea...
ANDRE MAUROIS Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished...
ANDRE MAUROIS The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions...
ANDRE MAUROIS The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
ANDRE MAUROIS An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go floppin...
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ANDRE MALRAUX An art book is a museum without walls.
ANDRE MALRAUX What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets
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ANDRE MALRAUX To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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ANDRE MALRAUX Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the...
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ERIC ANDRE