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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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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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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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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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