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Would Be Quotes by Andre Gide
- The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
- A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
- If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
- 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…
- The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?
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