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Quote by Andre Gide
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a

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 forte, I say nothing but banalities…. I listen to them and they go away delighted. – Andre Gide

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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. – Andre Gide

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. – Andre Gide

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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! – Andre Gide

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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. – Wilson Mizner

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