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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
Journalist
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France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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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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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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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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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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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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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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