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André Gide

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Total quotes: 5

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André Gide

Birthname

AKA: André Gide

Birthday: November 22, 1869

Death: February 19, 1951

Educated At: Lycée Henri-IV, École Alsacienne

Nationality: France

Occupations: V, T, E, Essayist, Autobiographer

Total quotes: 5

“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.”

— André Gide, Strait is the Gate and the Vatican Cellars

Tagged: Self-Perception, Psychology, Personality, Ego, Self-Esteem

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

— André Gide, Autumn Leaves

Tagged: Love, True Love, Hate, Who You Are

“Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.”

— André Gide, So be it

Tagged: Seek, Truth, Doubt, find, Yourself

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

— André Gide, Autumn Leaves

Tagged: Meaning, Life, Ambition, Remembered, Hated, Loved

“I must learn to keep silent. I must learn to take myself seriously. To have more mobile eyes and a less mobile face. To keep a straight face when I make a joke. Not to applaud every joke made by others. Not to show the same colorless geniality toward everyone. To disconcert at the right moment by keeping a poker face.”

— André Gide, Journals

Tagged: Keep Your Cool, Social Anxiety, Overthinking, Cold-Hearted, Don't Let Anyone In

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