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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.
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
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
Andre Gide
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Andre Gide
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Andre Gide
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
Andre Gide
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Andre Gide
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
Andre Gide
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andre Gide
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
Andre Gide
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Andre Gide
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide