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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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