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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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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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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Andre Gide
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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