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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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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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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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
Andre Gide
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Andre Gide
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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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre Gide
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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