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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre Gide
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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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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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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 want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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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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