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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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 greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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