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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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