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A work of art is an exaggeration.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Film Producer
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Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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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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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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