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André Gide - The Counterfeiters (1925)

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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

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In the realm of the emotions, the real is indistinguishable from the imaginary.

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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

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One does not discover new continents without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

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The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.

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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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André Gide

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Born: November 22, 1869
Died: February 19, 1951 (aged 81)
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