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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 most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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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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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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