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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
Journalist
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France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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