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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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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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