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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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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
Andre Gide
The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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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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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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