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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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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.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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