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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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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 abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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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 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 itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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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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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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