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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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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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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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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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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.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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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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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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Long only for what you have.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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