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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.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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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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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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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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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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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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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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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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