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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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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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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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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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