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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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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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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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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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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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