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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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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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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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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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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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