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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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