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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.
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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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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