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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the sufferings and joys of others.

Andre Gide

1959

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Kindness Empathy

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1959

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Andre Gide

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Gide, Andre. "Portraits and Aphorisms: An Unprejudiced Mind." Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality, edited by Justin O'Brien. Secker & Warburg/Meridian Books, 1959.

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