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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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