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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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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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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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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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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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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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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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