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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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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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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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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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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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