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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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