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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
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Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
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Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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