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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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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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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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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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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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