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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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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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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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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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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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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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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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Long only for what you have.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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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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