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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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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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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
Andre Gide
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Andre Gide
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Andre Gide
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
Andre Gide
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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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.
Andre Gide
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
Andre Gide
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
Andre Gide
Only fools don't contradict themselves
Andre Gide
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
Andre Gide
Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
Andre Gide
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
Andre Gide
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
Andre Gide
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Andre Gide
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
