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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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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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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Long only for what you have.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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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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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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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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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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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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