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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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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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