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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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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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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.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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