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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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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. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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