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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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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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