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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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