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Andre Gide was a 19th-century French author and nobel laureate. André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
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“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”
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“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
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“The color of truth is gray.”
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