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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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