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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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 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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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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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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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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