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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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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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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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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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Do not scorn little victories.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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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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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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