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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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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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.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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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.
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