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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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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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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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