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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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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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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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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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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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