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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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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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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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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 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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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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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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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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