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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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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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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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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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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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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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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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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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