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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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