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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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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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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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