Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

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About André Gide

Portrait of André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to...

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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves—in finding themselves.

The most decisive actions of our life—I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future—are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Dare to be yourself.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

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I think I'm only now realizing how hard it must be to be a woman. Too thin or not thin enough. Do your job flawlessly, but don't show up any of the men. Speak up, but don't be bitchy. Smile.

—Christina Lauren in Dating You / Hating You

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets—and it's always in your face.

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So much that was beautiful and so much that was hard to bear. Yet whenever I showed myself ready to bear it, the hard was directly transformed into the beautiful.

—Etty Hillesum

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

—Chögyam Trungpa

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