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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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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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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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