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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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