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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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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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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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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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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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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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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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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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