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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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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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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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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.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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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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Do not scorn little victories.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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