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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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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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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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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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