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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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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 often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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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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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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