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People Quotes by Andre Gide
- Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
- Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
- 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…
- Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
- Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
- The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
- Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
- The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
- In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...
- It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
- It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the…
- You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
- Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of…
- When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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