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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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