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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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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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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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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Long only for what you have.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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