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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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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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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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