André Gide, from a journal entry featured in The Journals Of André
Gide Vol II 1914-1927
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In you an idea becomes flesh; it palpitates, it lives, you caress it; you adopt it intimately; you know its contours, its limits; its deficiencies; its recesses; at once its genealogy and its descendants.