"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
-Andre Gide
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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.“
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"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
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"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."
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"The color of truth is gray."
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
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