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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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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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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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