Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Andre Gide
Of some forty families I have ...
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
Andre Gide
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
Andre Gide
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
Andre Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Andre Gide
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Andre Gide
