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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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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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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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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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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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