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There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

There’s no better cure for the fear of taking after one’s father, than not to know who he is.
– Andr Gide

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  3. You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. – Sigmund Freud
  4. This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene–a moment’s forgetfulness suffice. – Andr Gide
  5. One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andr Gide
  6. I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance. – Andr Gide
  7. What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told. – Andr Gide
  8. Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it. – Andr Gide
  9. Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness. – Andr Gide
  10. Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness. – Andr Gide
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  15. The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -” because they were too obvious. – Andr Gide
  16. Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature! – Andr Gide
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  19. Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least. – Andr Gide
  20. There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity. – Andr Gide
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