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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Long only for what you have.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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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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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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