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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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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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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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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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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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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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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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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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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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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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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