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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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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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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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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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