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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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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.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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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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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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