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André Gide
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love.
— Entry for January 21, 1929
André Gide
French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
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Lived 1869–1951, aged 82France
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A writer who turned his life into literature: the Protestant professor's son who spent fifty books reconciling moral strictness with sexual transgression, pederasty with principle, and came out the other side with a Nobel Prize and a reputation as France's greatest man of letters in his century.
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André Paul Guillaume Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869 and began writing in the symbolist style before his work sprawled across genres and decades. He published more than fifty books — fiction and autobiography both — using them to document what he called the two sides of his personality: Protestant austerity pulling against sexual adventurousness he refused to hide. A self-professed pederast, he wrote to explore how a person might be fully himself, own his nature, without abandoning his values. Between the wars he criticized imperialism and flirted with Communism in the early 1930s,…
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André Gide
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.
— Entry for August 23, 1926
André Gide
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The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered.
— Les Faux Monnayeurs (1925), Pt. 3, ch. 16
André Gide
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
— Si le grain ne meurt [If It Die] (1924), ch. III
André Gide
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The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
— Detached Pages, entry for 1913
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