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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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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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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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