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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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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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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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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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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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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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