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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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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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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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