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Age Quotes by Andre Gide
- An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back…
- Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
- Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
- It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
- Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
- It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
- Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of…
- At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin.…
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