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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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