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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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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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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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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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