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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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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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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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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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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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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