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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
Andre Gide
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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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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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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