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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
Explore more quotes by Andre Gide
"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."
"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime."
"Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."
"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."
"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 never become a butterfly."
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