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Andre Gide quotes about thinking

French Novelist December 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951

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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it? Andre Gide
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near. Andre Gide
The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating. Andre Gide
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach. Andre Gide
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. Andre Gide
Andre Gide quote: "A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned"
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned Andre Gide

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