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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

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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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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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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