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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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