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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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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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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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