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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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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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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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