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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

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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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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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