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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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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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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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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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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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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.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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