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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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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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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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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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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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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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