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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

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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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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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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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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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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