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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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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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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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