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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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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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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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