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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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 only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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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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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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