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Own Quotes by Andre Gide
- The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
- An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets…
- The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
- It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
- True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
- 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…
- It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
- Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would…
- Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could…
- The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov