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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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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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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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