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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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