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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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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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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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