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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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 be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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