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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

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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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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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