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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.
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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Do not scorn little victories.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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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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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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