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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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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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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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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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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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