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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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 abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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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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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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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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