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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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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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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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