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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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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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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 less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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