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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
Author
Autobiographer
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Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
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Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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Whenever
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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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: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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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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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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