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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
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Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
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Travel Writer
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Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Work
Adversity
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