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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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