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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

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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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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Long only for what you have.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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