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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.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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