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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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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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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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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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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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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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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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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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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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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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