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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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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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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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The color of truth is gray.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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