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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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