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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

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
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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