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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Andre Gide
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
Andre Gide
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
Andre Gide
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Andre Gide
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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
Andre Gide
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide
There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
Andre Gide
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Andre Gide
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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