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Sadness is a state of sin.
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 greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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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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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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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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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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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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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 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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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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