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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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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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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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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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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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 individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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