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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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