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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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