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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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Long only for what you have.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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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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