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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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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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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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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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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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