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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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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
Andre Gide
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Andre Gide
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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