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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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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 work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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