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To say it (the injured hip) was 100 percent would probably be overstating it but to be able to have the time to get it better up to this point is a great sign that it will be 100 percent.


Andre Agassi

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ANDRE GIDE Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ...
ANDRE GIDE The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
ANDRE GODIN Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
ANDRE MALRAUX To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wag...
ANDRE BRETON A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
ANDRE MALRAUX Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly imp...
ANDRE DUBUS What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself i...
ANDRE BRETON Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the ...
ANDRE BRETON Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There ...
ANDRE BRETON Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying th...
ANDRE BRETON Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...
ANDRE MAUROIS To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I ...
ANDRE BRETON The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
ANDRE GIDE Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and le...
ANDRE BRETON There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
ANDRE BRETON No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attem...
ANDRE BRETON Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leav...
ANDRE BRETON