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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

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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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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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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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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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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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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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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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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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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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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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