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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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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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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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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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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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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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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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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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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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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