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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
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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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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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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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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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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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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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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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