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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

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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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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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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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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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 one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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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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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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