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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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