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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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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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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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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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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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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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