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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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