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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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