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Quote by Andre Gide
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. – Andre Gide

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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. – Andre Gide

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. – Andre Gide

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. – Karl Marx

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I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other peoples truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave. – Jewel

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The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year. – Jane Fonda

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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