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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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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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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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