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Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness.

Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness.
– Andr Gide

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  9. Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it. – Andr Gide
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