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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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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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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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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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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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