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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.

Andre Gide

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