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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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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 Those from which the sap has withdrawn.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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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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