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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.
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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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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