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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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