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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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