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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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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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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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