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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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