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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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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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Do not scorn little victories.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Long only for what you have.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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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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