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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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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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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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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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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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