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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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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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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.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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