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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

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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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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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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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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 one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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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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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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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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