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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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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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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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