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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 is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. – Andre Gide

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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. – Thomas Browne

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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who cant deal with a woman of their own age. – Michael Caine

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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. – John F. Kennedy

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