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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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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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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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