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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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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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The world will be saved by one or two people.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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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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