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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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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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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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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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