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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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