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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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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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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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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 less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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