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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

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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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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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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