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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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Film Producer
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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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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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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