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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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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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