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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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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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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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Long only for what you have.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Andre Gide
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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