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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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