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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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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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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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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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