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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 thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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