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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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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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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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