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  • Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

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    Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.293, Routledge

  • Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

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  • I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

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Andre Gide

  • Born: November 22, 1869
  • Died: February 19, 1951
  • Occupation: Author
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