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Andre Gide Inspirational Quotes (245)

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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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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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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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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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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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