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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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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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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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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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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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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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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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