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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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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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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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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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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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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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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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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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