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 Paul Guillaume Gide [ɑ̃dˈʁe pɔl ɡiˈjom ʒi(ː)d] (* 22. November 1869 in Paris; † 19. Februar 1951 ebenda) war ein französischer Schriftsteller. 1947 erhielt er den Literaturnobelpreis.
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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.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.
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.
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
Die sechs Teilsignale hinter dem Fame-Score und ihre Ränge in den Ranglisten.
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