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The way I play cricket is to win games and do the best for the country and the team. If I happen to be ranked number one, great. But it doesn't mean anything to me as a player.


Andre Nel

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ANDRE GIDE Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever ...
ANDRE GIDE Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning a...
ANDRE GIDE Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuri...
ANDRE MALRAUX In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
ANDRE MAUROIS The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion ...
ANDRE MAUROIS Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
ANDRE MALRAUX Style Is the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.
ANDRE MAUROIS Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id...
ANDRE MALRAUX I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
ANDRE AGASSI It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at t...
ANDRE MAUROIS The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'p...
ANDRE MALRAUX One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
ANDRE MAUROIS So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDE There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le...
ANDRE GIDE Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROIS